When Sharks Circle Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Just as Simon Dominguez was cruising along on his 27th mile and nearing his goal of the Farallon Islands, a crew member saw a Great White Shark circling and eyeing Dominguez. "The first person saw it and then we all did. The yelling did gain momentum especially when you hear a loud voice
Suzie Dods outdid herself. Which is not easy to do for one of the world's most active marathon swimmers who volunteers and escorts to help other like-minded open water swimmers. But she did with her inaugural 24-hour Swim Relay in San Francisco, California inspired by the 24 Heures La Tuque professional relay of the 1960s and 1970s in Canada. "Suzie
Captain Vito Bialla provides the voice-over of this video showing Joe Locke's attempt of a 28.5-mile swim from the Farallon Islands to California. Hearing the bark of seals, the favorite food of Great White Sharks, had to be unnerving when Locke jumped in the water. But he blocked those thoughts from his mind. Farallone 5 from vito bialla on
Nominees for the World Open Water Swimming Association (WOWSA) awards (WOWSA Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, WOWSA Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year, WOWSA Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, and WOWSA Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year) will be announced in early November. The competition and scope of the nominees are mind-boggling
The Night Train Swimmers did not complete their unprecedented 339-mile ocean relay swim this week. The audacious plan to swim from Northern California to Southern California was tripped up not because of sharks, currents, winds, hypothermia, jellyfish or human exhaustion, but because of a mechanical problem with their steering on their main escort boat. A
Joe Locke quietly pulled off on an 11 hour 40 minute crossing of Lake Tahoe in the south to north direction yesterday. Most people tackle Lake Tahoe in the opposite direction, but the overall record remains with Dave Kenyon who swam in the north-to-south direction in 9 hours 20 minutes in 1987, although the standard distance is now set at 21.24 miles
Jamie Patrick of the Lake Tahoe Swimming Society certified three successful crossings of Lake Tahoe last weekend: On July 27th, North Channel conqueror Craig Lenning of Denver, Colorado swam in the north to south direction in 11 hours 0 minutes 26 seconds. The following day, Morgan Christian of San Diego, California swam in the south to north direction in
"It's real now," said Paul Lundgren before shoving off the east coast of Baja California for the mainland of Mexico 76 miles (122 km) to the east. All his dreams and fears, aspirations and worries have been bottled up in his mind ... and now standing on the shore those dreams and aspirations are certainly real. "Paul has finally discovered his cruising
The mighty lead battleship U.S.S. Iowa, which is 270 meters in length and carried U.S. President Roosevelt across the Atlantic to Casablanca en route to a crucial 1943 meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin, was scheduled to depart from San Francisco Bay. But due to a storm off of the California coast, her
Marathon swimmers love facing and overcoming everything the ocean can throw at them. And there are few places like the desolate Farallon Islands. 30 miles (48 km) west of San Francisco, the stretch of misery throws up barriers like few other places on Earth: rough water, cold water, jellyfish, tides, currents, the darkness of night and Great White
